We at Matchmaking Friends, Inc., a California corporation (“Matchmaking Friends”) are firmly committed to protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. We have created this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your privacy and to inform you how the information you submit to us and the information that we collect automatically from you is handled. This Privacy Policy is intended to only apply to your transactions and activities, and the data gathered, on the Matchmaking Friends Site, Matchmaking Friends Site, Matchmaking Friends site (collectively the “Websites”), email communications between members of the Websites (“Participants”), although it is not intended to apply to any other website or offline point of contact between Participants Matchmaking Friends or any other company, and consumers. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This Privacy Policy was last revised on August 2005. Each time you visit the Websites or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy at that time.

ELIGIBLITY

YOU MUST BE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS AT LEAST EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OLD TO PARTICIPATE ON THE WEBSITES.
Matchmaking Friends will not create matches for anyone under the age of 18. All adults are welcome to explore the site, complete the Relationship Questionnaire and obtain a Personality Profile. As per the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, any information input by minors will be purged from our database.

OUR USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Matchmaking Friends collects a wide variety of information you provide in order to find matches, offering the highest possible chance of a successful long-term relationship or marriage for your family/friend. None of the information collected by Matchmaking Friends as part of the intake questionnaire is used by the matching engine nor is the personality profile made accessible to the public, other users of the site, or anyone not employed by Matchmaking Friends directly. This information is held strictly confidential and can be deleted at the user's request. Information collected during membership sign-up, which may be shared with other users of Matchmaking Friends will only be shown to potential matching candidates. Non-subscribing visitors to Matchmaking Friends are not allowed access to this information in any way.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may disclose information you provide if required to do so by law or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process served on us; (2) protect and defend our rights or property; or (3) act in an emergency to protect someone's safety. In addition, as we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets and, depending on the transaction, your personally identifiable information may be one of the transferred assets. In the event that we are acquired by another company, your personal information may be part of the assets transferred to the acquiring party.

CHANGING OUR PRIVACY POLICY

If we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on the Websites notifying users of the change. In some cases we will email users who have opted to receive communications from us where we post the Website notice, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

INFORMATION YOU SUPPLY TO US AT REGISTRATION

Matchmaking Friends offers a subscriber-based service to users seeking partners for their family members or friends, as well as offering products related to successful relationships and personal growth for retail sale. To process subscriptions and/or product purchases, we may require your name, billing address, phone number, email address, shipping address and credit card information. Information gathered during product purchases is used primarily to process your order. In general, you will receive one email notification that you have placed an order, and another email notification that your order has been filled. You will be similarly notified of subscription renewal transactions when they occur. Email contact Information provided by you is also used primarily to notify you of potential match candidates identified by Matchmaking Friends based on your matching criteria and profile. Once you begin Matchmaking Friends's registration process, we may also occasionally send you newsletters and email you notifications of special events or product offerings at Matchmaking Friends. If you have started, but not completed, the registration process, we may also send you email messages encouraging you to complete the process and become a subscriber. If you would rather not receive emails about new products, promotions or other noteworthy news, please email us at info@matchmakingkids.com. Matchmaking Friends fully complies with the requirements of the federal CAN-SPAM Act. Please note that Matchmaking Friends is not legally responsible for family’s/friend’s chosen mate criteria for their own family/friend.

INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT FROM YOU

In addition to the information submitted by you, Matchmaking Friends automatically collects certain information each time you visit the Websites. For example, each time you visit the Websites, Matchmaking Friends will automatically collect your IP address, browser and computer type, access times, the web page from which you came and the specific Website pages accessed. If you choose to post messages in a forum, chat room or other message area, Matchmaking Friends will only display such information about you as you choose to reveal.

Demographic and profile data is also collected by us through the Websites. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our Websites, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. Some of this information (i.e., customer demographic information) may be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use cookies to collect this information and to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your login password, and if you so choose, to save other personal information so that you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Websites. If you wish to disable these cookies, the “”help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will give you instructions to do so. However, if you set your browser to disable or reject cookies, you may lose access to certain areas of the Website. YOUR PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION WILL NOT BE LENT OR SOLD TO ANY OTHER BUSINESS OR VENDOR.

PUBLIC FORUMS

Matchmaking Friends makes message boards available to its users and visitors. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personally identifying information.

Matchmaking Friends is where family/friends start to network for their own family/friends by way of our service. In this section you, the match maker, register for the service. Next, you create a profile describing your family/friend whom you’d like to set up. As a Matchmaking Friends member, you can match other registered people’s family/friends to your own. Follow up by sending your own family/friend an emailed note regarding your choice of a potential mate’s name and email address or to set up the actual date. We will keep this information in our database, and send that person an email containing your name and inviting them to visit our site to accept the invitation to plan a date. This email will also include a quick and easy way for them to accept, reject, reschedule, or remove their information from our database, if they desire. We ask that you do not abuse this feature by entering names and addresses of those who would not be interested in Matchmaking Friends.

SECURITY

Matchmaking Friends has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These measures include the use of Secure Server technology during credit card transactions and administrative access to site data, as well as other proprietary security measures which are applied to all repositories and transfers of user information. Although we will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and we accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure.


HOW YOU CAN HELP PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

Do not disclose or share your login password with anyone. If you lose control of your login password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and will become subject to any legally binding action taken on your behalf. If your login password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.

Likewise, do not provide other account information, including your user name, to anyone. Matchmaking Friends suggests that you not disclose personal, financial or address (home, business or hotel) information while using the Websites or the Internet in general.


INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THIRD PARTIES

On the Websites, you may see links to other websites that are not owned by Matchmaking Friends (“Unaffiliated Sites”). We do not control Unaffiliated Sites and this Privacy Policy does not apply to Unaffiliated Sites. When you click on these links and visit Unaffiliated Sites, the operators of the Unaffiliated Sites may collect different kinds of information about you and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on Matchmaking Friends’ Websites. In addition, third parties who place advertisements on the Websites may also collect information through cookies to ensure that their advertising systems and technologies are functioning properly and to allow them to track your responses to their advertisements. Cookies set by these third parties are governed by the privacy policies set by the third parties. Since we are not responsible for the practices of third parties and Unaffiliated Sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any Unaffiliated Website or third party site with which you come in contact.

ACCEPTANCE OF PRIVACY POLICY

Your use of the Websites, including any dispute concerning privacy, is subject to this privacy statement and the Terms of Use that also govern your use of the Websites. BY USING OUR WEBSITES, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF USE. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes on this page. Your continued use of any portion of our Websites following posting of the updated privacy statement will constitute your acceptance of the changes.